El artículo tiene por objeto relevar la modalidad con que se implementaron en Jujuy las políticas lingüísticas programadas por España para la hispanización o castellanización de sus colonias americanas. En el proceso de conquista y colonización, la Metrópolis instaló su lengua, su religión y su cultura. Juntamente con los conquistadores y colonos vinieron miembros de órdenes religiosas a quienes se les confió la evangelización y educación de los aborígenes. Lamentablemente, este aspecto de la historia colonial del Norte Argentino no ha motivado el interés de historiadores de la lengua o de la educación, y tampoco el de historiadores civiles o eclesiásticos hasta entrado el siglo XVIII. En documentos de fines del citado siglo accedemos a disposiciones del poder central que obligaban a indios y españoles a hablar sólo la ―castilla‖. El análisis de esos textos se enmarcó en la conceptualización de Louis- Jean Calvet (1997: 44) sobre los tipos de gestión que surgen de las prácticas sociales de los hablantes y, a la vez, del intervencionismo gubernamental sobre esas prácticas. Este doble funcionamiento se constata confrontando la descripción de las conductas lingüísticas asumidas por los pobladores ante los mandatos reales y el discurso coercitivo oficial.
The papers aim to relieve the modality by which the linguistic policy was introduced by Sapin in Jujuy, Province of Tucumán in the Viceroyalty of Perú, in the same way this policy was introduced to its American colonies. In the process of colonization, the Mother Country settled its language, religion and culture. Together with the conquerors, came members of religious orders who were in charge of the evangelization of the aborigines as well as the teaching of Spanish language to them. Unfortunately, this aspect of the colonial history of the north of Argentina had not been studied by historians of language and education or by civil or ecclesiastical historians up to the XVlll century. We lack of reliable documentation about the implementation of language policies in times of the first colonizations.In historical documents at the end of said century, there is information on orders of the central power that forced aborigines and Spaniards to speak only the ―castilla‖ and that prohibited them to speak American languages. The study of these texts is in line with Louis Jean Calvet’s(1997:44) view, who emphasize two concepts derived from linguistic situations: the social practice of the speakers and the government influence on those practices. These two aspects were stated comparing the colonial historians’ descriptions about the linguistic behaviour adopted by the population in the presence of royal orders and the coercive discourse found in our documents, in which it is reflected that the Spanish Crown uses language as an instrument of dominion
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